Cushion tire and manufacture thereof



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REEF/"E5; B. DAVIS, OF WEEEAWKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO PROVIDENCE RUBBER COIVIZFANY, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

CUSHION TIRE AND MANUFQCTUBE THEREOF.

Application filed February 17, 1922. Serial No. 537,179.

.. sill/whom my concern:

it known that I, LAURENCE R. DAvis,

e citizen of the United States, residing at .wheel as distinguished from those types which are demountebly secured by bolts and flanges.

Heretofore cushion types of solid ti res by which I mean those types of solid tires which are provided with cavities, recesses, or other formations, to permitthe constituent massesof rubber service to swell,

or expendindirections more or less parallel to the base-have been secured to the wheel by bolts passed through side-flanges andthe felloe of the wheel. More recently it has been proposed to vulcanize ,this type of tires to e base-band sectioned circumferen- 'tially into a pluralityof parts for permitting molding projections to be removed after curing lint both procedures are objectionable on one ground or another.

The present invention contemplates a cushion or yielding solid tire, having oneor more internal cavities, which is secured,

after curing, upon a metallic base or hand, one or both of whose margins 1S subsequently-upturned to form lateral flanges prevent.

ing sidewise shift.

With the illustrated embodiment in mind and withoutunnecessery limiting intention, the invent1on briefly may be said to consist in curing a tire in desired form, preferably with fabric incorporated in its base, and sub- 'sequently mounting the tire on to an un- Fig. 2 illustrates the preferred form of the undersized metallic base or band upon which the tire is mounted by stretching and pressing, and V Fig. 3 shows in cross-section the complete or finished tire mounted on its base ready to be pressed upon the felloe of a. wheel.

According to my invention, I mass the tire constituents-vulcanizable rubber .1 and preferably also fabric 2-roughly in the relation and form shown inthe drawing with one or more internal cavities 3;

I may make any suitable number. of the cavities, or only one, in the form of an annular channel which is open toward the base of the tire. The particular form and construction of the tire may be varied as desired to furnish the requisite cushioning properties, the form being widely variable as shown in the prior art, and it is not my intention to limit myself to any one form. The resulting annulus is then placed in a mold with an internal segmental ringcarrying projections corresponding to the shape of the channel or cavities desired, and the tire cured as convenient.

The tire isthen assembled upon a metallic base. In Fig.- 2, I have shown a base at 4: of suitable form. This preferably has an upstanding already formed flan cylindrical portion 6 is preferably of an thrternal-diameter to permit slipping the volcanized tire into position thereon snugly but without difiiculty. After mounting the tire, I then spin up the flat margin of the base to form a second restraining flange 7.

The metallic rim on which the tire is thus mounted is smaller in circumference than will permit it to be pressed upon a fclloe. Consequently, I then expand or elongateit circumferentially, increasing its diameter, for instance, from one-quarter to one-half an inch, according to the properties of the metal in the band and its thickness, the amount of expansion being variable to suit the conditions. This expansion of the band-whicl1 is indicated in Fig. 3-- may be done in any suitable manner but preferably in a way known as bulldozing, well known in the wheel or rim industry and consisting essentially of a chuck having-a number of segments expansibleby a cone drawn axially of the chuck.

From the foregoing description, it will be clear that my procedure enables the tire hill?) I!) i spinning a: ii tm'ning 0i": secomi i'" mining flange. By the iinai. n1 buildnznng" opei'aiion, i. e.. the expansion of flue metziiiic base in he vxzici size suited for pressure appiimtion i The "Feline iii the when], Hm necessity 0 f prouisiu iiimei'isiotning in thepi'evious st ig'es of i'hv nmnufactm'c is avoided. pansinn in the fellas seating portinn of the hasehand being greater 11m; in :he flanges, the lame? hand 01' swing inwzirii and downward indicated in defied lines in 3} with a conseqneniisii (lesirahie grin ping or pinching: action upon ihdE-ciii wniis mijzicen t is base of the tire. The tire, ni course, aisn stretched cii'cuiiif .v Mai! and tightly cias; wi i'iJGl'i the: met Zia m It is in he unrierstnnd 51m ihi. jrincinie of the inwmion is not confined in the pm: vise plmii ifilc above set i'mih as am procedure which resuis in tigiii'iy an SD21 fitting ti)? tire in its meiaiiis 3m distension 0? either or both, in y lowed, Fm an under't'iian-riing of The scape of the invention, refvronce is biiaieio're made to ivhe accom mnyin Ci11i211$ Having thus (iPSiTiiRLiL inv-en tian, I claim and desire in prnfnnt by Letters lavtexit is:

1. As an article (if manufacture, a soiirl der tension circumferemiaily, and a metaliic base-band with integrai flanges prevenv ing lateral shift of the tire, said flanges converging toward the tread pf the tire and compre singiy gripping theside walls of the tire adpcent ":1 on the base-hand.

3. The prowess of making a unitary (ushion tire and i'iin which consists in, amassing \uicanimbie rubber tire cmisfituents in the i m'in of an annulus viiicaiiizing the annulus to form :1 tire having its inner pvi'iphery rem-ssex in augment its mishioning capsiciiy, mountinv iiiiiilil'fi upon :1 moiniiic haw-Band, hmniing wi y gmcmhoih margins of fiihfi meniiiv ha 'i to form siiimflanges, and iinuiiy XpiilKii'ug the base-hand 1'0 :1 size per sure :ippiivntion t0 :1 wheel and mgniher tin base-band and vigi- F tire I i. e precess of making a unitary cushinn tin? and rim which mmsisis in, amafasing viilnaniztvbiu rubber tire mmstituents in the form of an {illfliliili vizimnizzing the annuins 0 im'ni its inner periphery re- :riisiiinning capacity, i @Hic ims'e-lmnd, r argins of the meside-i'ianges, 0xa pi'vrietorminezi to a Vilfii and i0 {38g v, Q 511d vnicanizeri ii handing the inwards each nine? in g5 {7f the contacting thei'vwith.

in if-rm ma ufncturv in? soiiii tires the min (ii mining n. 'viiicmiizeii tire on a niainiiiz'. bum-band, turning: up one or both ziiargins ihe base-band to form sidefizuwi and subsa: mini 0): Minding the as g, 1 senmiv (i and tire in a size zwapiied +1111: Him to a whvai and for n;

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